Tuesday June 30 "The Monty Heat Treat News" will publish our annual list of the 52 largest commercial heat treaters in North America for 2026, the only such list in the world. This year's list will feature a number of changes as some companies expand, others contract which leads to come firms being removed from our list with others being added.

A new addition to our list is a firm in Texas by the name of "Worldwide Heat Treat"-their summary is below. In the meantime, our 2025 list can be found at "52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2025".

"Worldwide Heat Treat/Houston, Texas. "Worldwide Heat Treat" in Houston, Texas was founded in July of 2018 by Mr. Robert Gutierrez as a 6,000 square foot facility offering small batch atmosphere heat treating. After a tremendous growth spurt, only doable by a consistent volume of work from our loyal oil and gas customers, the company moved into their current location of 40,000 square feet under roof and added employees to bring our employee count to 32 presently. We now offer some of the largest vertical atmosphere / carburizing capabilities in the USA. We can accommodate up to 90.00" diameter x 140.00" long parts in our largest pit furnaces.

We can process up to 38' long in our car bottom furnaces for various types of heat treat processing. Due to our growth, we have opened a second location, "Worldwide Bor-X" here in Houston this past year. We are currently offering gas nitriding and boronizing up to 72.00" diameter x 95.00" long at this current moment in our line of pit furnaces. We will be installing another 2 pit furnaces in the 3^rd quarter of 2026 to add to our fleet. This location started off with just 1 employee last year and we are up to 10 employees at this time and we anticipate adding an additional 5 throughout this year. We anticipate opening up several more plants around the USA that offer these types of services. "